Sunset of Empire: Book 6 of the American War

The Empire cannot win. It cannot be defended. And it will not stop.

1944. Japan is being taken apart in four places at once, by men with four different reasons.

In China, the largest army the Empire owns is still fighting and still winning ground in a war that stopped mattering a year ago, and nobody in Tokyo will order it home. In the hills of Indochina, men who asked Washington the same question for eleven months stop waiting for the answer. Over the home islands, the raids come from the north and the south, and the last of Japan’s aces fly against them until there is nobody left to fly. And on the Ryukyus, American soldiers set foot on Japanese soil for the first time.

In Tokyo, a sovereign who spent the war behind a screen must decide whether he will finally be seen.

The largest warship ever built has one last voyage to make.

SUNSET OF EMPIRE is Book Six and the finale of The American War. The war against Germany continues in The European War.

The American War
Book One: A Date with Infamy
Book Two: The Gathering Storm
Book Three: The Deep Pacific
Book Four: An Angry Giant
Book Five: Gaijin at the Gates
Book Six: Sunset of Empire

From a 2026 Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History Novel.